"Haiti is the kind of place that grabs your heart, and never lets go ... When you arrive in Port-au-Prince, the first thing that strikes you is how vibrant the colors are. Buses, buildings, fences, clothing, everything is brightly painted in primary hues. On closer inspection, you see the reality behind this brightly colored landscape: a dark, grinding poverty, the worst in the Western hemisphere."

-- Andrea Mitchell

#Letting Go Quotes #Heart Quotes #Dark Quotes

“Even a criminal has the right to a new life, but they made sure I did not have that. They just didn't stop calling me a prostitute for ever and ever and ever and ever.”

Source : "The lady's not a tramp" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2001.
“I'm a great believer in stunt doubles. They do an amazing job.”
“The words we use for the Creator are a reflect of ourselves. If we think of God as fear and shame, we are scared and have something to be ashamed of ... But if we see love, compassion and kindness, it is because we possess these qualities.”
“Nature's kind of clever, because it figured out millions of years ago that if you grow these fibers below a critical size, even if you have flaws in the material, it doesn't affect the strength.”
“The Internet is clearly about more than sports scores and email now. It's a place where we can conduct our democracy and get very large amounts of data to very large numbers of people.”
“In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another's sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects.”
“When I got back into the film business after college, I started out as a production assistant.”
“Disaster falls on those who try hardest to avoid it.”

Source : Elizabeth Foreman Lewis (2016). “Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze”, p.116, Macmillan

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